The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-03-05
THE WEST.

THE Ohio Supreme Court has decided
that County Treasurers must, according to
law, expend sums collected under the Dow
liquor tax law, and that the fact Of the
money being paid under protest is OF no
avail The widow of Gen. Logan has Sc
lected Jackson Park. near the southern
limits OF Chicago, for the final burial-place
OF her husbands remains Jacob Schaef-
ers challenge TO George 4. Slosson for
games OF balk line and cushion carom bill
lizards Cor $500 side has been accepted,
and they will be played in Chicago next
month. Ira ID. Sankey informs his
friends AT Pittsburgh that, on the compile
ton of the training school for Christian
workers, TO be erected by wealthy Chicago
ans, Mr.. Moody will make desperate at
tempt to evangelize the western metropolis.
80. Hon. Jesse w. Fell, OF Bloomington,
H., died at his home in that city last
week, AGED as years. He was an intimate
friend of Abraham Lincoln, and at one time
owned 800 acres OF land, on which part OF
Chicago now stands. He became a resi-
dent OF BLOOMINGTON in 1888.
A BED Of red hematite iron ore, sixteen
feet thick, was recently uncovered near
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Commodore VIII
liam Il. Truxton, United States Navy, re-
tired, died last week at Norfolk, Va
The six-story candy factory of Darby Il Co.,
in Baltimore, was burned, causing loss Of
$l50,000.
MISS GENEHIEyE WARD will be seen as
Stephanie in Forget Me-N Not" at McVick-
er's Theater, Chicago. this week. The
operate concerts 10 be given by Nine.
Patti at McVicker's Theater will be three
in number. On Monday evening, March q,
the first act of "The Barber of Seville" and
the second act of Semiramide' will be
given; on Thursday evening, March 10, the
programme will comprise the first act Of
ia Traviata" and the second act OF Linda
III Chamonix;" on Saturday afternoon.
March -, the third act OF martha" and
the second act OF Lucia" will bo per-
formed.
An engine on the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois Road, when passing Taylor street,
Chicago. exploded with a deafening crash,
and Engineer Gus Weinzer and Fireman
Clarence Lowe were, with the locomotive,
literally blown 20 pieces. The two unfor-
tunate men were blown hundreds OF feet in
opposite directions, and their bodies. when
found, we're absolutely unacceptable.
The cause OF the disaster is supposed 10
have been too high pressure OF steam
An Atlantic and Pacific passenger train
went through bridge near Needles, Cal.
Tho engine, baggage, mail, and express
cars caught fire and were consumed. T.. l..
Gilbert, brakeman, was burned TO death,
AS were also two Indians and one tramp.
The engineer, T.. j. Hodgdon, is not ex-
pected 10 live. +. l.. Peppin, the
mail agent. and j. X. Dickinson
are seriously hurt. DIR. NJ. J. Chase,
of Galesburg. H., was burned
about the head. w. Marsh, of Quincy,
Ill, had his leg hurt. Very little express.
baggage, or mail was saved A Bismarck
I'D. To- dispatch reports Representative
Els, OF the committee which went 10 Mon
fana 20 confer with Montana Legislators
about pleuro- pneumonia, as saying that the
cattle losses between Miles City and Bill
ings viii be 10 90 % per cent, and east OF
Billings 60 10 70 per cent. The losses
around Fort Benton are very hoayy